Top 681 Quotes & Sayings by Serbian Authors - Page 4

I want to play. I want to be on the pitch.

When we were kids, I remember we'd use lemon in our hair and go into the sun, hoping it would make us blond. Obviously, I have very dark hair and olive skin, and when I was a kid, I wanted to be blond, of course. It never worked.

I really just try to enjoy the game and hope that I can inspire young kids. I started playing tennis because of Monica Seles, and I try to promote the sport in the best possible way. Sometimes it's hard because you get upset on court, but I think in life one learns through experiences in order to evolve as a person.

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

I am not trying to say I'm a genius, but 'Underground' was the strongest attack there has been on Milosevic. It is about a man who locks his friends in a cellar for 40 years and convinces them that the war is still going on. He uses them, but they still think he is a great guy. And this was shown in every cinema in Serbia.

Scoring at Old Trafford was a very nice feeling. A great memory and something I won't forget.

In Serbia a lot of people hate me because they want to westernize, not understanding that the western world is bipolar, with very good things and very bad things.

I like to score and create goals. If a team-mate is in a better position, you need to search for him.

When you don't have the ball, you need to be a killer, and you need to be tough. If you do have the ball, you need to feel free and to create things and to play with your head.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can't cover himself with words, he can't create a wall.

I think when you play with someone, you tend to pick up their game and try to develop something together.

I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad.

I am not bothered what people say. You have always different opinions.

I'm a typical No 9: always in the box, strong, good in the air.

I don't know what is flopping. I think Derek Fisher does a better job of that than I do. It's taking a charge. It's for the refs to decide.

This is the league of the stats, the numbers.

There must be one guy open and I want to find him.

Love liberates you and gives you the power to make the impossible possible.

Serbs can only leave Kosovo.

Normally when we play against Brazil, we will just try to stop them from winning.

Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.

As I said, when I played at Chelsea I give always my best to help the team but now Manchester United is my club and I will try to win there.

It is always something special when you can talk with people from your country. It is always nice to hear advice in your own language.

I worked with many directors in my life, but Tim Miller is definitely my favorite. He not only has a beautiful sense of directing actors, but he also shares a great love and passion for the comic book world, as I do.

I am somebody who respects Putin highly, but I'm not somebody who is against America.

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

I have a lot of hair, and it's quite heavy: Sometimes I'll braid it for a match so it's all together.

I am my best enemy.

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.

Football saved me.

An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia's participation, would be acceptable.

It was always my dream to be at Ajax.

Since the age of 12, I was on my own. Everything I do, I get my parents' support.

Slavisa is a great manager. He has helped me so much. Throughout his career, he has done a really good job.

The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.

I don't usually talk much.

I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

I enjoy animals. Their nature.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

I'm happy, my family's happy, everything is going well.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'

I'm just a troublemaker.

I will always be a Newcastle United fan all my life.

Artists can do whatever they want!

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

If I make a change to a young kid to play any sport, not only tennis, instead of spending time in front of the TV or computer, that is good. I want to give them a good example: 'Hey, go out and play and see the world.'

When we were young, they always teach you that you can never give up. It doesn't matter what has happened: you cannot give up. Sometimes it is good, sometimes that is not good. But still, you try.

My teams in Serbia always had really good point guards. But I have always loved to dribble the ball. Even when I was outside, just walking by myself, I would always love to dribble and imagine my defender there in front of me - what I would try to do.

Sport is dirty if you want to win, but I am not a dirty player.

I don't want to speak about why I left Chelsea. I will keep that to myself.

I say that if the team play well and use me in the right way... the goals will come.

Basketball is the opposite of selfishness, basketball is solely about giving and sharing and caring for one another.

Benfica will forever be in my heart.

I was never selfish, and I see a lot of things. If I see a person in a better position than me, I will give him my assist. This is also my way of thinking, and I expect that from my team-mate for me.

Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.

I love, love, love my grandparents.

I've filmed before in the U.S. and have more than 80 roles in TV, film, and theatre, but the feeling of becoming a part of the Marvel Universe as Colossus is incredible. Sometimes you just can't explain that moment, but when you think about it, you feel so happy and proud.

Everyone knows where I play, as a defensive midfielder, more or less the same, so in the last six or seven years I play in that position and there is nothing new for me.